ALOS-3 Mission

Objectives and Applications

Disaster monitoring, coastal and land environmental monitoring, the maintenance and updates of precise geospatial information. Mission instruments will be Optical Sensors (Pan, Multi).

Mission Summary

Full Name
Advanced Land Observing Satellite-3
aka DAICHI-3
Mission Status
Mission complete
Mission Agencies
Launch Date
07 Mar 2023
Mission Links
EOL Date
07 Mar 2023
EO Portal Info

Orbit Details

Orbit Type
Sun-synchronous
Orbit Period
98 minutes
Orbit Sense
Descending
Orbit Inclination
98.1 deg
Orbit Altitude
669 km
Orbit Longitude
Orbit LST
10:30
Repeat Cycle
35 days
NORAD Catalog #
International Designator

Mission Instruments

OPS (Pan, Multi) - Wide-swath and high-resolution optical imager (Pan, Multi)

Mission Measurements

CategoryParameterInstrument(s)
AtmosphereCloud type, amount and cloud top temperature OPS (Pan, Multi)
LandAlbedo and reflectance OPS (Pan, Multi)
Vegetation OPS (Pan, Multi)
Multi-purpose imagery (land) OPS (Pan, Multi)
OceanOcean colour/biology OPS (Pan, Multi)
Multi-purpose imagery (ocean) OPS (Pan, Multi)
Snow & IceSnow cover, edge and depth OPS (Pan, Multi)
Sea ice cover, edge and thickness OPS (Pan, Multi)

OpenSearch Datasets

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